Coonabarabran Landcare Inc will be conducting an intensive rabbit control program at the Nandi East Reserve after it found that rabbits were killing the trees it had planted as part of its revegetation program.
Wes Leedam told the Western Plains App, “Our group has just planted 800 trees at the Reserve. The rabbits has been decimating all the new seedlings” on the site just on the outskirts of Coonabarabran’s west.
Many of the trees – which include a range of species and sub-species, are designed to reflect the river-side ecosystem of the area before settlement – have actually died as a result of the rabbits feeding on them…